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fifty feet ; and if the front of the houfe be two hun- 

 dred feet, the Parterre fhould be fifty feet broader; j where they muft be fhaded from the fun untii 

 but where the front of the houfe exceeds the breadth 



of tlie Parterre, it will be a good proportion to make 

 the Parterre of the fame dimenfions with the front. 

 Some do not approve of making Parterres very broad, 

 bccaufe it makes them appear too fhort -, when no- 

 thing is more pleafing to the eye, than a contrafted 

 regular conduct and vTew, as foon as the perfon goes 

 out of a houfe or building v and a forward direft 

 •view is thebeft, whether it be either Parterre or lawn, 

 or any other open fpace, either two, three, or four- 

 fold in the width ; and for that reafon, thofe defigns 

 may juftly be difapproved, by which the noblenefs 

 of the view is marred at the immediate entrance into 

 the garden, the angle of light being broken and 



confufed. 



The making of Parterres too large caufes a great ex- 

 pence, and at the fame time occafions a diminution 

 of wood, which is the moft valuable part of a garden. 

 As to the adorning and furnilhing thefe Parterres, 

 whether it be plain or with embroidery, that depends 

 much upon the form of them, and therefore muft be 

 left to the judgment and fancy of the defigner. 

 PARTHENIUM. Lin. Grn. Plant, gsg. Parthe- 

 niaftrum. NifToL Ad. Par. 1711. Dill. Gen. 13. Baf- 



rard Feverfew. 



The Characters are, 

 // balh afiower compofed of herma-phrodiit florets and fe- 

 male half florets^ which are inclofed in a co-mrnon five- 

 leaved fpr ending empakment. ^he hermaphrodite flowers 

 which form the difk^ have one tubulous petal cut into five 

 parts at the him-, they have five hair-like ft amina the 

 length of the tube, terminated by thick fummits. The 

 germen is Jituated below the floret^ and is fcarce vifible, 

 fupporting a flender ftyle having noftigmd\ thefe florets 

 are barren. The female florets which corhpoft the rays 

 cr Border, are fir etched oat bh oHe Jide like' a tongue '^ 

 thefe have a large, heart-fhaped, cornpreffed gei'fhM, with 

 a flender ftyle crowned by two long Jpreadir^ ftigtnas. 

 Thefe are fucceeded by one heart-fhaped compreffed feed. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the fifth feftion of 



; Linnjeus's twerity-firft clals, which includes thofe 

 plants which have male and female, or herrriaphro- 



' dite flowers in the fanie plants, whofe male or herma- 

 phrodite flowers have five Itamina. 

 The Species are, 



i. Parthenium (Hyfterophorus) foliis compofito-multi- 



' fidis. Lin. Hort. Cliff. 442. Parthenium with many- 

 pointed compound leaves. Partheniaftrum artemifias fo- 



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fliould be removed to a warm Iheltered fituaiion 



4 -'- ***^ AMftA U11L1I tilCV 



have taken new root -, after which time they may b^ 



expofed, with other hardy annual plants in a warm 

 fituation, where they will flower in July, and their 

 feeds will ripen in September. But if the fcafoa 

 fliould prove cold and wet, it will be proper to have 

 a plant or two in fhelter, either in the Hove, or un- 

 der tall frames, in order to have good feeds, if thof* 

 plants which are expofed fliould fail, whereby the 

 fpccies may be preferved. 



The fecond fort is a perennial plant, which dies to 

 the ground every autumn, and Ihoocs up again the 

 following fpring. The feeds of this fort were fent rr.c 

 by my good friend Dr. Thomas Dale, from South 

 Carolina, where the plants grow wild. This may 

 be propagated by parting the roots in autumn, and 

 may be planted in the full ground, where it will abide 

 the cold of our ordinary winters very well. This fore 

 flowers in July, but feldom produces good feeds in 

 England. 



Thefe plants make no great appearance, fo are fddoru 

 cultivated but for the fake of variety. 



PASQUE-FLOWER. See Pulsatilla. 



PAS SERIN A. Lin. Gen. Plant. 440. Thymel^a. 

 Tourn. Inft. R. H. 594. Pluk. Sanamunda, Cluf 

 Sparrow-wort. 



The Characters are. 

 The flower has no tmpalement ; it has one withered petals 

 having a flender cylindrical tube fwelling below the mid- 

 dle, and divided into four parts at the top^ which fpread 

 open. It hath eight briftly ftamina fitting on the top 

 of the tube, terminated by ere£} fummits almoji oval. It 

 has an oval germen under the tube, having a flender ftyle 

 rifing on one fide of the top of the germen, crolvned by a 

 beaded ftigma, fet with prickly hairs on every fide, fhe 

 germen afterward turns to an oval feed pointed at Utb 

 ends', ^ inclofed in a thick oval capfule of one cell. * 



This genus of phhU is ranged in the firil feaion of 

 Linnxus's eighth clafs, w^hich includes (hoft plaJnts 

 whofe flowers have eight ftamina and one flylc. 

 The Species are, - 



1. Passernia (Filiformis) foliis linearibus convexis 

 quadrifariam imbricatis, ramistomcn tolls. Lin. Sp. 

 Plant. 559. Spdrrd'w-woH doith linear convex leaves hi- 

 bricated four wcrys, and downy branches. Thymcica 

 Ethiopica, paflerinse foliis. Breyn. Cent. 10. fig. 6. 

 Ethiopian Spurge Laurel, with Sparrow-wort kaves.' 



2. Passerina {Hirfuta) foliis carnofis extus glabris, 

 caulibus tomcritofis. Lin. Sp. Plant, 559. Sparrbw- 



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lio, flore albo. Hort. Chelf. 152. Baftard Feverfew, \ wort with fiefhy leaves, which are fmooth on their outfide, 



and downy ft alks. Sanamunda 3. Cluf Hift. i. p. 89. 

 The third Sanamunda ofClufius, 

 3. Passernia {Ciliata) foliis lanceolatis fubciliatis crtc- 

 tis, ramis nudis. Lin. Sp. Plant. ^^^: SparrowMort 

 with fpear-fhaped ereB leaves having frnall hairs and 

 iHahd branches. Sanamunda i. Cluf. Hifl:. 88. fke 

 ' firft Sanamunda of Clufius. 



4; Passernia {Uniflora) foliis lincaribiis oppofitis, flo- 



' ribus tcrminalibus folitariis, ramis glabris. Lin. Sp. 



'■ Plant. 560. Sparrow-wort with linear leaves pTdcid cp- 



' p<ifite, ftngle flowers tirmnatmg the branches, andfmdotb 



ftalksV- Thymel^a ramofa, linearibuS foliis ai^ftis, 



flore folitario. Buritt; Afr. 131. tab. 48. fig. i. Srantb- 



ing Spurge Laurel^ with narrow linear leaves and a fingle 



-flower. " ■ ' '-^ '.-^ -. .:;.:-:/-^ ■ ^ 



The firfl: fort grows liaturally at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, from wherice it was firft: brought to the gar- 

 dens in Holland, This rifes with a flirubby ftalk five 



with a Mugwort leaf 

 2. Parthenium (^Integrifolium) foliis ovatis crenatis. Lin. 

 ,- Hort. Cliff. 442. Parthenium with oval crenated leaves. 

 't PaftTieniafl:funi helenii folio. Hort. Elth. 302. tab. 

 <'^ 225. Baftard Feverfew with an Elecampane leaf 



The firfl: fort g^bws wild in great plenty ih tlie iflahd 

 ■ of Jamaica, and in fome other of the Englifh' fet- 



tlements in the Weft-Indies, where it is called wild 



Wormwood, and is ufed by tKc mKabitants as a vul- 



1 he fecond fort grows plentifully m feveral parts of 

 the Spanifli Weft-Indies, froffi whence the feeds have 

 been brought to Europe. / 





' Th(j firft is an annual pl^nt, which may be propa- 



J)agated by fowing the feeds on a hot-bed early in the 

 pring ; and when the plants come up, thejr fhould 

 ' l)e trarifplahted on another hot-bed, atabomfive or 



Tix inches diftance, obfervihgto waiter arid fliade them - , . 



until they have taken new root; after which time f ^ or fix feet high, fending out branches the whole 



they muft have a pretty large fhare of frefh air in 

 'Warm weather, by raifing the glafles of the hot-bed 



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every' day, and they muft be duly watered every 

 other day at leaft. When the plants have grown fo 



length, which, when young, grow ereft, but as they, 

 advance in length, they incline toward an horizontal 

 pofition; but more fO, when theYmall fhbots to- 

 ward the end are full of flowers and fced-velTels, 



as to meet each other, they fliould be carefully taken j which weigh down the weak branches frorn their up- 



up, preferving a ball of earth to their roots, and right pofition. The liranches are covered with a wmte 



each planted^ into a feparate pot filled with light rich doWn like meal, and are clofely garnifhed with very 



earth ; and if they are plunged into a moderate hot- I narrow leaves AVhich are convex,, and lie over each 



bed, it will greatly facilitate their taking frefh root ; 

 but where this^ convcniency is wanting, the plants 



other in four rows like tlie fcales of fifh> ^ ^s that the 

 young branches feem as if they were four-cornered. 



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